Monday 25 May 2009

Day 8: Slaidburn to Penrith

Climb into the Dales...

Wow, what a great day's cycling. The Yorkshire Dales are probably not the flattest route north, but fantastic scenery and the everlasting descents (topping 40 mph) certainly made up for it. And the teashop had Bovril and Crumpets on special. When in Rome, and all that. Lunch in Hawes set us up for a hard section of headwind to the top of the next pass which happened to be the border into Cumbria. Arrived at the top just at 2 other cyclists were coming the other way - a couple of very friendly locals who told us about the Fred Whitton Challenge that they'd done the previous weekend. It's only a one day ride, but sounds terrifying - look it up. Another swooping but all too brief descent found us on the last stretch to Penrith. Top proprietor of our guest house drove us to Halfords that evening whilst making us wince with the stories of his blister problems the last time he did a bike ride. Well he was about 25 stone.


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